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...Greg Taylor and Jim Strain) is the 486th rewrite of a Spielbergian fantasy: lost child meets the Dead Parents Society. The story doesn't advance; it just piles up, like a multiple-car wreck. And its whimsy is spiked with way too much spite. In this nightmare replay of Toy Story, everything is demolished: a pretty old home, a local mall, an innocent town. It's destruct-o-rama, kids! Fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Because it exploits children's weakness for noise, clutter and anarchy, Jumanji is a perfect Christmas gift--for Bob Dole...
...TOY STORY BONANZA...
...Jobs, the co-founder and later ousted chairman of Apple Computer, stands to rake in a windfall of more than $1 billion as his latest venture, Pixar Animation Studios, issues a public offering of stock. Pixar, a tiny computer company based in Richmond, California, created the current blockbuster movie Toy Story. Jobs bought the company for $10 million...
...could have been a boy toy, if you didn't consider yourself a man. Stupid you, thinking yourself so mature, don't want to be made a fool of. You don't desire the condescension of those whom you admire. Think not only of all they learn during the initiation process, but later as full members of the final clubs. Silly men, you're missing all the fun had by these boys...
...nightmare with a happy ending; a Rorschach drawing in fingerpaint--these are definitions of a Disney cartoon. Toy Story, though released by Disney, was not exactly generated by it. In the mid-'80s, Lasseter, a Disney alumnus, joined the Marin County computer lab Pixar and made three terrific shorts (Luxo Jr., Red's Dream and Tin Toy) in which he invested metal objects such as lamps, unicycles and drummer-boy toys with life and heart. These films, forerunners to Toy Story, ingeniously show that things have wills and wits of their own and exist in intimate relation to their human...